Yet another reason not to watch television news.
Media Failure
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The perils of innumeracy
See this post by beamjockey.
Reality check: “Dear Democrats, liberals and the like”
Not like the demonstrations and arrests of my youth…
Everybody has access to the Ramsey County Jail Bookings, in a searchable database.
A show we won’t see
The Limits of Linguistics
“….we are generally powerless to interpret reincarnationspeak and yogababble.”
Via Ann Althouse
Microsoft’s Contribution to the Olympics
Anything else would be a medical breakthrough!
Sensationalism and ignorance at the New York Times
Driving vs. Flying
See Hypermilers, The key number is MPGPP (miles per gallon per person). The article looks at cross-country (New York-LA) travel. I would like to see the figures for Minneapolis-Chicago (trust CNN to ignore “flyover country”) and to include Megabus in the comparison.
From Hilbert Space to Dilbert Space, and beyond 